- Shankhya Debnath
- HoD & Lecturer, Dept. of Printing Technology
- Regional Institute of Printing Technology
- shankhya@wbscte.ac.in
- 03324146432 (O)
Bio
I am presently serving as a Lecturer & HoD in the Department of Printing Technology, Regional Institute of Printing Technology Kolkata since July 2017. I was previously associated with DIC India Ltd as a Technical Services Executive (Offset Division) for three years (2014-2017) before joining my present organization. I hold a Master of Technology in Printing Engineering & Graphic Communication and a Bachelor in Printing Engineering degree, both from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. My teaching areas include digital prepress workflows, color management and print standardization. My research involves developing cost effective alternatives to print metrological devices leveraging computational intelligence. Curriculum vitae
Professional Activities
- Associate Member of The Institution of Engineers (India) IEI
- Principal Member of Publication and Graphic Technology (MSD 6) Bureau of Indian Standards BIS
- Reviewer for Entertainment Computing (Elsevier)
- Reviewer for Color Research & Application (Wiley)
- Reviewer for Coloration Technology (Wiley)
- Reviewer for Signal, Image and Video Processing (Springer)
- Reviewer for Computational and mathematical organization theory (Springer Nature)
- Reviewer for First Analytics Global Conference, AGC 2023, Kolkata, India (Springer Nature)
- Reviewer for Discover Artificial Intelligence, 2025, 2026, Springer Nature
- Reviewer for Scientific Reports, 2025, 2026, Nature
- Reviewer for Quantum Machine Intelligence, 2025, Springer
- Reviewer for Discover Applied Sciences, 2026, Springer
- Reviewer for Journal of Hardware and Systems Security, 2026, Springer
- Reviewer for npj Heritage Science, 2026, Springer
- Reviewer for Machine Vision and Applications, 2026, Springer
Academic credentials
- 2025: Master of Technology in Printing Engineering & Graphic Communication, Jadavpur University, CGPA: 9.67 (Gold Medalist)
- 2014: Bachelor of Engineering in Printing Engineering, Jadavpur University, CGPA: 9.19 (Gold Medalist)
- 2010: West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination Rank: 1838
- 2009: West Bengal Higher Secondary Examination: 91%
- 2007: Indian Certificate for Secondary Examination: 90.3%
Awards
- 2025: University gold medal for attaining first position in post-graduate examination in M.Tech in Printing Engg & Graphic Communication.
- 2025: Award for the Best Paper titled "Scanner-Based Optical Density Measurement Using Stacked Ensemble Learning: A Cost-Effective Approach for Print Quality Control" in the 3rd International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Data Science and Cloud Computing, April 2025.
- 2014: University Gold Medal. Conferred by Jadavpur University for standing first in Bachelor of Printing Engineering Examination
- 2014: Bhaskarlal Chakroborty Smriti Padak. Conferred by Jadavpur University for standing first in Bachelor of Printing Engineering Examination.
- 2014: Bhupendra Nath Nandi Memorial Gold Medal. Conferred by Jadavpur University for standing first in Bachelor of Printing Engineering Examination.
- 2014: Coats of India Ltd Gold Centered Silver Medal. Conferred by Jadavpur University for standing first in Bachelor of Printing Engineering Examination.
- 2014: Award for the Best Paper titled "Analysing banding features for classifying print processes using Artificial Neural Networks". Issued by Department of Printing Engineering, Jadavpur University in student's paper presentation event at Printvizon 2014.
- 2012: Indu Bhushan Putatunda and Shanti Bhushan Putatunda Award for Academic Excellence: Gold Medal conferred for achieving academic excellence and outstanding performance in Second Year of Bachelor Printing Engineering Examination, issued by Jadavpur University Alumni Association.
Certifications
- 2023: Three-week Industrial Training at Saraswaty Press Ltd (Government of West Bengal) An ISO 9001:2015 certified company on 1) Evaluating the compliance of prepress workflow to PDF/X specification based on GWG recommendations and 2) Analysis on Productivity of City line 508 web press at Saraswaty press for the month of December 2022
- 2023: NITTT Module 8_ Institutional Management & Administrative Procedures
- 2023: NITTT Module 7_ Creative Problem Solving, Innovation and Meaningful R & D
- 2023: NITTT Module 6_ Student Assessment and Evaluation
- 2023: NITTT Module 5_ Technology Enabled Learning & Life Long Self Learning
- 2023: NITTT Module 4_ Instructional Planning and Delivery
- 2023: NITTT Module 3_ Communication Skills, Modes & Knowledge Dissemination
- 2023: NITTT Module 2_ Professional Ethics & Sustainability
- 2021: 2 Day Training Programme for Technical Committee Members, BIS Online
- 2020: Online Teaching Tools and Techniques for Printing & Packaging (1 Week) PVGCOET Pune Online
- 2020: NITTT Module 1_ Orientation Towards Technical Education and Curriculum Aspects
- 2019: Elements of Visual Representation (8 Week NPTEL Online certification course)
- 2019: Accreditation and Outcome based Learning (8 Week NPTEL Online certification course)
- 2019: TEQIP III Sponsored one-week short term Course on Emerging Trends in Photonics and Applications (ETPA 2019) NIT Durgapur
- 2019: Faculty Development Program for Student Induction (FDP-SI) AICTE Sister Nivedita University
- 2018: TEQIP III Sponsored one-week short term Course on Open-Source Software in Academia and Research (OSSAR 2018) NIT Durgapur
- 2018: Induction Training - Phase II (2 Weeks) NITTTR Kolkata
- 2018: Human Resource Management - Issues in Technical Education System (1 Week) NITTTR Kolkata
- 2017: Quality Improvement in Institutional Activities (2 Weeks) NITTTR Kolkata
- 2017: Designing Student Centered Instruction (1 Week) NITTTR Kolkata
Recent News
- October 2026: My paper "ChromaTokenNet: Log-Chromaticity Token Transformer with Confidence Pooling for Robust Camera Color Constancy" is accepted in Color Research and Application, Wiley. [Details]
- September 2026: Our paper "Predictive Analytics for Spectral Reconstruction from sRGB Data: An Application in Color Measurement for the Printing Industry" was presented at CICBA 2026. [Details]
- August 2026: Our paper "Predictive Analytics for Spectral Reconstruction from sRGB Data: An Application in Color Measurement for the Printing Industry" is accepted at CICBA 2026. [Details]
- August 2026: Our paper "A feature engineered and optimized deep neural network approach towards predicting optical density of prints using scanners" is now published in Engineering Applications of Artifical Intelligence, Elsevier. [Details]
- August 2026: Our paper "A feature engineered and optimized deep neural network approach towards predicting optical density of prints using scanners" is accepted in Engineering Applications of Artifical Intelligence, Elsevier. [Details]
- April 2026: I coordinated the 4-day online Workshop on "Applications of AI in the Printing Industry (AAIPI)" [Details]
- February 2026: Our paper "Scanner-Based Optical Density Measurement Using Stacked Ensemble Learning: A Cost-Effective Approach for Print Quality Control" is now published as proceedings of ICDC 2025 in Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, Springer. [Details]
- January 2026: I coordinated the 3-day online STTP on "Quality Assurance and Process Control in Print Production"[Details]
- December 2025: I was conferred the University Gold Medal for M.Tech in Printing Engineering & Graphic Communication from Jadavpur University on 24.12.2025.
- November 2025: I delivered a lecture on ``From Press to Performance - Printing Process Insights towards Better Chemistry'' for Miwon Speciality Chemicals on 24.11.2025.[Details]
- August 2025: I delivered a Invited Lecture on ``Standards in Graphic Technology: From Rules to Results'' for Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), hosted by the Department of Printing Engineering, Jadavpur University.[Details]